The 2024 Castrol FloRacing Night in America season came to a close this weekend with the second running of the Peach State Classic at Georgia's Senoia Raceway.

The World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series isn’t the only traveling series to have its battle for the championship come down to the final weekend.

ROSSBURG, Ohio — All Ricky Thornton Jr. wanted to do in Saturday's General Tire Dirt Track World Championship presented by ARP was avoid the self-inflicted wound that knocked him from Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series championship contention in last year’s event at Eldora Speedway.

A nearly year-long battle for the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series championship that began January 15 in Georgia came to a conclusion on October 19 in Ohio. Four drivers entered the Chase for the Championship with a shot at the title, but only one of those drivers emerged from the finale at Eldora Speedway as the 2024 series champion.

ROSSBURG, Ohio — A chink in Jonathan Davenport’s thick Eldora Speedway armor appeared to have developed. Perhaps, just perhaps, the master of the famed half-mile oval was off his game.

ROSSBURG, Ohio — Ricky Thornton Jr. sat in the same place Friday afternoon that he did almost exactly one year to the day: at a dais in Eldora Speedway’s media center alongside his three Big Four rivals in the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series’s Big Steel River Steel Chase for the Championship.

Ricky Thornton Jr. and his Koehler Motorsports team are heading to Eldora Speedway this weekend with a chance to win the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series championship. And while it hasn’t been confirmed yet if Thornton will be back with Koehler Motorsports in 2025, we do know one thing for certain: “RTJ” will have a new crew chief next season.

Four rounds are complete in the Big River Steel Chase for the Championship on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series and now the Dirt Track World Championship only remains until a national champion is crowned Oct. 19 at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio.

The penultimate weekend on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series and the Big River Steel Chase for the Championship started with Friday's portion of the 45th annual Jackson 100 presented by Summit Racing Equipment at Brownstown Speedway.

Ricky Thornton Jr was his usual, steady self in Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series action at Pittsburgh’s Pennsylvania Motor Speedway, registering finishes of third Friday and sixth Saturday in the 36th annual Pittsburgher 100 presented by Big River Steel.

The opening rounds of the Big River Steel Chase for the Championship on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series are in the books, which means two weekends remain until a national champion is crowned Oct. 19 at Eldora Speedway's Dirt Track World Championship in Rossburg, Ohio.

The field is set for the 2024 Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series Big River Steel Chase for the Championship presented by ARP. Following Saturday's Lucas Oil Late Model Knoxville Nationals at Knoxville Raceway, the four drivers who will battle for the season championship have been determined.

Ricky Thornton Jr. is ready to throw his hat into the winged 410 Sprint Car ring.

Some of the sport's biggest names are shifting their focus to Eldora Speedway and this week's World 100 a little earlier than planned after Sunday's Hillbilly 100 rainout at Tyler County Speedway on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series.

Hudson O’Neal was running second. The driver he replaced last month as driver for SSI Motorsports, Ricky Thornton Jr., was third and itching to move up.